Investigating Science Prelim key words

Descriptive data collected in an investigation

• Quantitative data
• Qualitative data
• Secondary data
• Primary data

Numerical data collected in an investigation

• Qualitative data
• Quantitative data
• Secondary data
• Primary data

Observed the displacement of water and made inferences about density

• Archimedes
• Isaac Newton
• Albert Einstein
• Galileo Galilei

Observed the effect a mould on the growth of bacteria and infered it had antibiotic properties

• Louis Pasteur
• Alexander Fleming
• Robert Koch
• Edward Jenner

Observed moons orbitting Jupiter and infered that the Earth was not the center of the solar system

• Galileo Galilei
• Isaac Newton
• Albert Einstein
• Nicolaus Copernicus

Data collected from an investigation you performed

• Primary data
• Secondary data
• Tertiary data
• Quaternary data

Data collected from books, journals or other published materials

• primary data

• secondary data

• tertiary data

• observations

What is pareidolia?

• A psychological phenomenon that causes people to see patterns in a random stimulus
• A type of cloud formation
• A rare neurological disorder
• A method of data analysis

What is an optical illusion?

• A type of magic trick
• A visual perception that appears to differ from reality
• A type of painting technique
• A type of camera lens

An explanation of why or how a scientific phenomena occurs

• A scientific theory
• A scientific law
• A scientific hypothesis
• A scientific experiment